In the book, My Freshman Year "What A Professor Learned by Becoming a Student" by Rebekah Nathan; A culture anthropologist named Rebekah Nathan introduces us to the everyday life of an undergraduate in a university. She wants to study the ways that a student lives academically and socially. To do this, she decides to enroll in a university as a student herself. This way not only will she be living her life as newly enrolled freshman in the university but it will help her give her a better visual with her studies.
The idea that interest me the most is the way that she represent herself to students. In the first chapter, she practice with her friends and colleagues how she will introduce herself to actual students on campus. This idea interest me the most because being that I am currently a full time freshman at Bloomsburg University, I kind of look at the older people that's enrolled in this university differently. What if someone is here doing the same thing that Rebekah is doing? What if my older friends are here to hang out with undergraduates for research? I think that it will be pretty weird to find out that one of my friends are researchers, but overall I think that it is a fun job.
Throughout the second chapter, she talks about the life in dorms. Everything that she explains about the dorms are very accurate. She talks about everything from the decorations to people personal style in their rooms. I also like how she gets into the details of actually live in the dorms and the social events that they provide for the students in the dorms such as ice cream socials, movies and free popcorn and other social events to help students connect with each other.
In the book, My Freshman Year "What A Professor Learned by Becoming a Student" by Rebekah Nathan; A culture anthropologist named Rebekah Nathan introduces us to the everyday life of an undergraduate in a university. She wants to study the ways that a student lives academically and socially. To do this, she decides to enroll in a university as a student herself. This way not only will she be living her life as newly enrolled freshman in the university but it will help her give her a better visual with her studies.
The idea that interest me the most is the way that she represent herself to students. In the first chapter, she practice with her friends and colleagues how she will introduce herself to actual students on campus. This idea interest me the most because being that I am currently a full time freshman at Bloomsburg University, I kind of look at the older people that's enrolled in this university differently. What if someone is here doing the same thing that Rebekah is doing? What if my older friends are here to hang out with undergraduates for research? I think that it will be pretty weird to find out that one of my friends are researchers, but overall I think that it is a fun job.
Throughout the second chapter, she talks about the life in dorms. Everything that she explains about the dorms are very accurate. She talks about everything from the decorations to people personal style in their rooms. I also like how she gets into the details of actually live in the dorms and the social events that they provide for the students in the dorms such as ice cream socials, movies and free popcorn and other social events to help students connect with each other.